Case Study
Speaking the School Board’s Language: How Educational ROI Data Guided Smarter Planning in Uncertain Times
Speaking the School Board’s Language: How Educational ROI Data Guided Smarter Planning in Uncertain Times
The School District of Lee County in Florida, serving over 100,000 students across 116 schools, partnered with Level Data to evaluate how major funding investments impacted student outcomes. Facing immense pressure to connect Title I and grant spending directly to academic results, Assistant Director Leta Dietz Smith lacked the internal financial capacity to calculate instructional impact. Level Data’s specialized educational return-on-investment (ROI) software solved this critical challenge by providing advanced data analytics. The platform allowed administrators without finance backgrounds to easily track financial investments against student performance metrics. By utilizing Level Data’s software, the district successfully guided smarter planning, justified resource allocation, and clea
